Dr. Jennie covers current trends, peaks, surges and vaccinations for Covid-19 with Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Mark Sawyer.
Dr. Jennie and Dr. Sawyer cover the following topics in episode 3 of season 2 KidzDocTalk:
-Percentage of eligible children vaccinated
-Purpose and goal for Covid vaccines
-Each family's risk/benefit analysis
-Family interactions when a member is infected
-Avoiding exposure, transmission, infection and reinfection
-What underlying conditions are being seen in hospitalized children
-Current trends, peaks and surges
-Children not eligible for the Covid vaccine yet
-Overloaded hospitals
-Outdoor gatherings/activities without masking but still distanced
-Importance of ventilation
-The efficiency of social distancing and masks two years into the pandemic
-Living with Covid in the future
About Dr. Mark Sawyer:
Dr. Sawyer is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist at the UCSD School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. He is the medical director of the UCSD San Diego Immunization Partnership, a contract with the San Diego County Agency for Health and Human Services to improve immunization delivery in San Diego. He is a past member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) and the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and is an Associate Editor of the AAP Red Book. Recently he was recalled to VRBPAC to work on the FDA approval of COVID vaccines